On 6/20/05, Aaron Mulder wrote: > Well, for configuration purposes, I was thinking something like: > > 1) Edit XML/text files enough to get ports/security working > 2) Start Geronimo, use management web app to get other things working > > I personally prefer that scenario to Swing/Text configuration > tools. However, it's a separate issue from upgrade procedures. While I respect your quest for simplicity, I disagree with this approach because I think it's too minimal. I think Geronimo needs to offer an easy to use, friendly installer/post configurator to the community. Installation of commercial app servers is usually handled through a GUI installer but configuration has traditionally meant hand editing config files. This is not something that I think we can do much better. > I guess I probably should have clarified that in my original > response. I'm not that keen on Swing management tools, though our > installer package is GUI-only AFAIK. But I was trying to get to our > actual requirements, and it sounds like "no GUI options whatsoever" is a > desired target platform. This is exactly why I'm suggesting that we create a library to handle the installation and configuration tasks. It will allow any kind of UI to be developed - GUI, text or web - as well as allow for scriptable installations. This is extremely powerful and cannot be undervalued. Bruce -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E